The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-23

some can do is to serve as the means by which
great good comes to the world and they are hon
ored for IL Not everybody may be Bernese
Alp but IL he be Rigi by which the Alp is re-
vealed to those to whom it would otherwise be
unknown it is enough. Such is the service of
the Rigi and verify it has it's reward.
But not alone the Rigi. Luzerne has another
attraction The place wherein the Lion OF Luz
zerne is to be seer is about the last stranger
would look for it. There indications of
its whereabouts. and so far as 1 could observe
no directions that would aid in its discovery. 1
started out after dinner TO find If, and walked
about as / understood the hotel porter to direct.
Finally I asked a small boy. standing in gar
den the street, and by dint of much hard
work made him understand what wanted. He
waved his hand in the direction. and that ges-
ture followed until found the spot. 1t seems
to be in a grotto at the back of a dozen door
yards, that radiate from the monument and shut
it out from the public. The impression is that
you going through an alley into back
yard where, in the face of the sandstone rock
that rises about 80 feet. the lion is cut. In
front of it is n mean, dirty, little circular pool,
possibly forty or fifty feet in diameter. about
and in which duck and her small family
quacked aud played at will. An old fell
low seeing visitor to the lion.
and possibly seeming few centimes,
turned on the water for few minutes and the
Jet to the height of fifty or sixty feet'
with no other appreciate effect than to disturb
both tho pool and the gosings. There are
half dozen benches in front of the fountain on
which you sit and look at Thorwaidsens
great conception, While back OF these benches
are numerous shops in which all manner of
trnkets and views sold, and IN one OF which
is shown the model of the lion made by the
Danish sculptor, and from which the carving
was done. Despite the apparently mean ard
impertinent surroundings, the lion is yet lion.
No works of art have yet seen SO impress me
as the Lion of Luzerne and the lions Of Landseer,
at the foot of the Nelson column in London. L
went back again and again to sit in silent admira-
ton OF the wounded and dying animal
that so heroically represents the spirit
of the Hsvetan Guards that died for
king. queen and duty. The more
1 looked the more the wonder of the conception
grew There is an expression of majesty, of
strength of leonine courage, and yet such
suggestion of weakness and agony. that the i'm
pulse is to caress, and if possible soothe the dying
beast In the simple accessories of shield and
Heur de lys, lying just outside the protection OF
the massive paw, the whole history OF the fear
.ul sacrifice is written-heroic. devoted. but flu
tile To-day have visited the room in which
the Swiss Guards were butchered at Versailles,
and from which Marie Antoinette fled on that
fearful night with her husband, only at last to
end their days the gullotine and as the
fury, and terror, and bloodshed OF that time
were rehearsed, the sculptured lion of Thorwald-
sen, with all this history in its face, was ever
before me. The Lion of Luzerne is one OF the
few the immortal things.
Il no ante
brunnen valley of the Grindelwald glaciers I
must not attempt to describe reached 1t by q.
ride over the Brienz Pass in diligence; a day
full of beauty and delight. Everybody comes
TO Interlaken. and there Is preparation to take
care of every body; the hotels many and su-
perb. Indeed they all there is of the town. The
balance of it exists because the hotels there
and people to fill the hotels, and bring business
and stir the place. The principal hofs face
one street, the Hoheweg, which is the fashion
able promenade, and which, IN turn. faces the
Jungfrau, she reveals her beautiful outlines be-
tween two groups of mountains that seem to act
as warders, fencing off nearer look or more
impertinent approach. The Jungfrau is worthy
her reputation. Clad in robes of virgin white.
with a faultless form, as she unveils her snowy
shoulders in maiden modesty among the other
and less striking peaks that seem to stand about
q
cence. Near her, in perpetual attendance, stands
the Silberhorn. a whited page holding the robes
of his queen. The group is peerless one. and
80 far as could see is viewed to no better ad-
vantage than from the porticos of either of the
hotels, or from any point in the half mile prom
euade The excursion to the Grindelwald did
not pay. The glaciers scarcely worth the
name and if you to those at Mont Blanc
the time and exertion expended at Grindelwad
are wasted. The excursion to the Lauterbrun-
men we'll repays the day that should be taken for
1t. The Lauterbrunnen is not one fall but q
valley Of nothing but falls the meaning of the
name. A splendid view of the Jungfrau is also
obtained this side. and of the Silberhorn,
which is not seen on the trip
to Grindelwald. The valley is very
rugged, and It's PERCEPTIONS sides full of
leaping cascades The principal is the
Staubbach, or dustfall. called because the
water as it falls over the nine hundred feet of
rock is broken into the finest spray, over which
the sun plays in rainbow hues at times, afford
ing fine spectacle The volume of water is
not large, and the fall is more beautiful than
impressive. Even its great height fails to rem
der it impressive. But Walter Scott sang it's
beau ties, and it is fixed in poetry and the imag-
nation and will continue hold its place as
''the Brides Veil" Much more striking to me
was the Tremelbach, or what is known the
second waterfall. Here a tremendous torrent
of water has cut its way through the rock in
spiral shape. Much of the time it falls through
q sort of tunnel, hidden from sight, but now and
anon the roaring, tearing, dashing water comes
to view in boiling heat and white with impas
stoned fury. Two three bridges built,
upon which you get nearer and better views,
something like the ledge of rock behind the
Niagara whirlpool only here you are in front of
the fall. The Tremelbach gives you an impress
sion of the force of an Alpine torrent while the
Staubbach simply falls in a graceful, almost
lstless, drapery of spray. Like everything else
In Switzerland, there is fee 10 the Tremel-
bach, and also to see the Staubbach, from